Welcome to my Library!
Reading is one of, if not the most important, thing that has shaped my life and who I am today. I want to share with you some of the books that have impacted my life.
Currently Reading:
- On The Road (Paperback) - Jack Kerouac
- Nonviolent Communication (Audible) - Marshall Rosenberg PhD
- The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God (Libby) - Tim Keller & Kathy Keller
- The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Libby) - Bill Bryson
- Ask An Adventurer: Behind the scenes: making a living from living adventurously, growing an audience, and unconventional creativity. (Kindle) - Alastair Humphreys
- The Mystery Of The Blue Train (Kindle) - Agatha Christie
“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
Books Read 2026:
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- Travel Hacks: Any Procedures or Actions That Solve a Problem, Simplify a Task, Reduce Frustration, and Make Your Next Trip As Awesome As Possible (Life Hacks Series) (Kindle) - Keith Bradford
- I Just Wish I Had a Bigger Kitchen: And Other Lies I Think Will Make Me Happy (Libby) - Kate Strickler
- And Then We Hit a Rock: A family of 5, a dog, and a cat move onto a sailboat. Hilarious true story! (Audible) - Greg Buenzli
- The Picasso Heist: A Thriller (Libby) - James Patterson
- The Art of Spending Money: Simple Choices for a Richer Life (Kindle) - Morgan Housel
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Books Read 2025:
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- Time Off: Guide to Building Your Rest Ethic and Finding Success Without the Stress (Kindle) - John Fitch, Max Frenzel, Mariya Suzuki
- Deny, Delay, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It (Kindle) - Jay Feinman
- Zorba The Greek (Audible) - Nikos Kazantzakis
- The Artist’s Way (Kindle) - Julia Cameron
- Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul (Kindle) - Stuart Brown MD
- The Liars Club: A Memoir (Audible) - Mary Karr
- The Widow’s Husband’s Secrets Lie: A Satirical Novella (Libby) - Freida McFadden
- Park Avenue Summer (Libby) - Renée Rosen
- Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, ReclaimYour Freedom, And Build Your Empire (Kindle) - Dan Martell
- The Mysterious Affair At Styles (Libby) - Agatha Christie
- Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! (Audible) - Robert Kiyosaki
- The Murder on The Links (Hoopla) -Agatha Christie
- An Academy for Liars (Libby) - Alexis Henderson
- The 4-Hour Workweek (Audible) - Tim Ferriss
- Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (Kindle) - Sendhill Mullainthan & Eldar Shafir
- The Regatta Mystery (Hoopla) - Agatha Christie
- 16% Solution: How to Get High Interest Rates in a Low-Interest World with Tax Lien Certificates, Revised Edition (Kindle) - Joel S. Moskowitz
- How To Solve Your Own Murder (Libby) - Kristen Perrin
- I’m Off Then: Losing and Finding Myself on the Camino de Santiago (Kindle) - Hape Kerkeling
- Walking With Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain (Audible) - Andrew McCarthy
- The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy (Libby) - Douglas Adams
- Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down The Pilgrim’s Route into Spain (Audible) - Jack Hitt
- On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer (Audible) - Rick Steves
- Rebel Without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player (Audible) - Robert Rodriguez
- Pilgrim: Finding a NEW way on the CAMINO DE SANTIAGO (Kindle) - Carolyn Gillespie
- The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals To Wonder Through Science & Poetry (Kindle) - Maria Popova
- The Diary of A Bookseller (Audible) - Shawn Blythell
- The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses (Kindle) - Eric Ries
- 2nd - Walking With Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain (Audible) - Andrew McCarthy
- Taste: My Life Through Food (Libby) - Stanley Tucci
- Eat a Peach: A Memoir (Kindle) - David Chang
- eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work (Kindle) - Randall E. Stross
- What The Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (Libby) - Malcom Gladwell
- The Art of Travel (Audible) - Alain De Botton
- Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection (Libby) Jia Jiang
- Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire (Kindle) - Andrew Wilkinson
- How To Fly For Free: Practical Tips The Airlines Don't Want You To Know (Kindle Unlimited) - Scott Keyes
- Two O'Clock on a Tuesday at Trevi Fountain: A Search for an Unconventional Life Abroad (Audible) - Helene Sula
- One Simple Idea, Revised and Expanded Edition: Turn Your Dreams into a Licensing Goldmine While Letting Others Do the Work (Kindle Unlimited) - Stephen Keys
- The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life (Kindle) - Sahil Bloom
- I Will Teach You To Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. Just a 6-Week Program That Works (Kindle) - Ramit Sethi
- Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending (Kindle) - Elizabeth Dunn, Dr. Michael Norton
- 2x - Main Street Millionaire: How to Make Extraordinary Wealth Buying Ordinary Businesses (Audible) - Codie Sanchez
- The Sweaty Startup: How to Get Rich Doing Boring Things (Audible) - Nick Huber
- Our Italian Summer (Libby) - Jennifer Probst - 11/10/25
- Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy Seals Lead And Win (Audible) - Jocko Willink & Leif Babin - 11/11/25
- On Desire: Why We Want What We Want (Kindle) - William B. Irvine
- Mistletoe and Magic: The new cute and cosy romance read full of festive cheer for winter 2025 (Audible) - Helene Sula
- The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, Special 15th Anniversary Edition (Hoopla) - Robin Sharma
- Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life (Kindle) - Beth Kempton
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2024 Books Read.
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- Setting the Table (Kindle) - Danny Meyer
- Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way To Launch A 7-Figure Business In 48 Hours (Kindle) - Noah Kagan
- The Guest List (Audible) - Lucy Foley
- Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to The Art of Long-Term Travel (Audible) - Rolf Potts
- The Four Hour Workweek (Audible) - Tim Ferriss
- Around The World in 80 Trains: A 45,000-Mile Adventure (Audible) - Monisha Rajesh
- Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator (Audible) - Ryan Holiday
- It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs (Libby) - Mary Louise Kelley
- The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in The Equatorial Pacific (Audible) - J. Maarten Troost
- If You Could Live Anywhere: The Surprising Importance of Place in a Work-from-Anywhere World (Hoopla) - Melody Warnick
- Walking with Sam: A Father, A Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain (Libby) - Andrew McCarthy
- Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life (Libby) - Frances Mayes
- The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America (Libby) - Bill Bryson
- A Walk in The Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Libby) - Bill Bryson
- The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact (Libby) - Chip Heath & Dan Heath
- Rediscovering Travel: A Guide For The Globally Curious (Hoopla) - Seth Kugel
- The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom (Hoopla) - Paulo Coelho
- Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Kindle) - Anne Lamott
- The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain (Libby) - Bill Bryson
- Ravenous (Audible) - Helen Hardt
- Take More Vacations: How To Search Better, Book Cheaper, and Travel the World (Hoopla) - Scott Keyes
- Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (Kindle) - Mason Currey
- Insatiable (Audible) - Helen Hardt
- At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Libby) - Bill Bryson
- Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life (Hoopla) - Héctor Garcia & Francesc Miralles
- Getting Stoned With Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu (Audible) - J.Maarten Troost
- The Doorstep Mile: Live More Adventurously Everyday (Hoopla) - Alastair Humphreys
- Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier (Kindle) - Kevin Kelly
- Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More than They Expect (Kindle) - Will Guidara
- Italy-Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (Hoopla) - Barry Tomalin
- The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Libby) - Johnathan Haidt
- Tao Te Ching (Kindle) - Lao Tzu
- Animal Farm (Paperback) - George Orwell
- The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are (Libby) - Brené Brown
- Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World (Kindle) - Tim Ferriss
- Rising Strong: How The Ability to Reset Transforms The Way We Live, Love, Parent And Lead (Libby) - Brené Brown
- On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Kindle) - William Zinsser
- Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story (Audible) - J. Maarten Troost
- Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Empires (Hoopla) - Selwyn Raab
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2023 - Books Read
Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed and Happiness (Kindle) - Morgan Housel
We Came We Saw We Left: A Family Gap Year (Audible) - Charles Wheelan
The Itching Palm A study of the Habit of Tipping in America (Kindle) - William R. Scott
How To Live: 27 Conflicting Answers and One Weird Conclusion (Paperback) - Derek Sivers
Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel (Audible - re read) - Rolf Potts - Multiple
The Four Hour Workweek (Audible - re read) - Tim Ferriss - Multiple
The Hounds of Baskerville -Sherlock Holmes (Paperback) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Craving (1 of 31 - Audible) - Helen Hardt
The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less (Kindle) - Barry Schwartz
Obsession (2 of 31 - Audible) - Helen Hardt
Possession (3 of 31 - Audible) - Helen Hardt
Goombata: The Improbable Rise and Fall of John Gotti and his Gang (Paperback) - John Cummings
E-Myth Contractor (Kindle) - Michael Gerber
Melt (4 of 31) - Audible) - Helen Hardt
Burn (5 of 31 - Audible) - Helen Hardt
Surrender (6 of 31 - Audible) - Helen Hardt
Under the Sweetwater Rim (Paperback) - Louis L’Amour
Shattered (7 of 31 - Audible) Helen Hardt
Utah Blaine (Paperback) - Louis L’Amour
Silver Canyon (Paperback) - Louis L’Amour
The Third Door: The Wild Quest To Uncover How the World’s Most Successful People Launched Their Careers (Hardback) - Alex Banayan
Twisted (8 of 31 - Audible) - Helen Hardt
High Lonesome (Paperback) - Louis L’Amour
Ride the Dark Trail (Paperback) - Louis L’Amour
Unraveled (9 of 31 - Audible) - Helen Hardt
Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster (Kindle) - Dana Thomas
How to Win Friends and Influence People (Audible) - Dale Carnegie
Moonwalking with Einstein (Kindle) - Joshua Foer
On the Far Side of the Mountain (Paperback) - Jean Craighead George
Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck (Hard Back / Audible) - Mark Manson - 2x’s
Breathless (10 of 31 - Audible) - Helen Hardt
Your Money or Your Life (Audible) - Vicki Robbin & Joe Dominguez
Die With Zero: Getting All You Can From Your Money and Your Life (Kindle) - Bill Perkins
The Vagabonds Way (Kindle) - Rolf Potts
Marco Polo Didn’t Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer (Kindle) - Rolf Potts
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to follow the Bible as Literally as Possible (Hoopla - Audio) - A.J. Jacobs
Top Five Regrets of The Dying (Kindle) - Bronnie Ware
Pineapple Street (Audible) - Jenny Jackson
I Can’t Believe We Live Here: The Wild But True Story of How We Dropped Everything in the States and Moved to Italy, Right Before The End of The World (Kindle) - Matt Walker & Zeneba Bowers
2022 - Books Read
- The Truffle Underground - Ryan Jacobs
2. Thrive - Arianna Huffington
3. A World Without Email - Cal Newport
4. The Sleep Revolution - Arianna Huffington
5. Reclaiming Conversation - Sherry Turkle
6. Small Giants - Bo Burlingham
7. The Lion Trackers Guide to Life - Boyd Varty
8. The Million Dollar, One Person Business - Elaine Pofeldt
9. Tiny Business Big Money: Strategies for Creating a High-Revenue Microbusiness - Elaine Pofeldt
10. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perserverance - Angela Duckworth
11. Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself - Melody Beattie
12. The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance - Josh Waitzkin
13. The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry - John Mark Comer
14. Built to Sell - John Warrillow
15. The Old Man and The Sea - Earnest Hemingway
16. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It - Michael E. Gerber
17. Company of One - Paul Jarvis
18. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Dreams - Matthew Walker
19. Anything You Want: 40 lessons for a new kind of entrepreneur - Derek Sivers
20. Hell Yeah Or No: what's worth doing - Derek Sivers
21. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence (Audible) - Michael Pollen
22. We Learn Nothing (Audible) - Tim Kreider